From: Seebs <usenet-nospam@...>
Date: 2009-12-30T10:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to avoid \ escaping when using "= <<-EOF" ?

On 2009-12-30, I�aki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
> How could I avoid the "\" scaping so the text appears verbatim?
> Thanks a lot.

If any part of the listed modifier for the here document is quoted,
the here document acts like single quotes:

cat <<-'EOF'
        foo\bar$baz
EOF
=>
foo\bar$baz

(Note that the stripping of whitespace from the '-' still takes effect.)

-s
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